I recently helped Ashish publish a whitepaper on SEO of Silverlight Applications . The paper talks about some of the best practices for search engine optimization of Silverlight content. You can use these practices to make your Silverlight content discoverable...

Silverlight 2 gives you the ability to create your own controls. The term custom control has been thrown around a lot in the Silverlight community, but it's not always clear what that means. Here are my thoughts.
There are three types of controls...

I am sure you know that the Silverlight 2 release included new controls such as ComboBox and PasswordBox . However, you might have wondered where the tree control or additional layout controls are. If you need these controls and don't have time to develop...

There are a number of bugs in Silverlight that might give you grief. I've compiled a list of some of these bugs as well as their respective workarounds here: Silverlight Bugs and Workarounds . I published this list on a blog page rather than a blog post...

The FrameworkElement.Loaded event in Silverlight has a timing difference versus the FrameworkElement.Loaded event in WPF. Specifically, in WPF, the Loaded event will occur after the template is applied. In Silverlight, the Loaded event is not guaranteed...

The content is there, but it turns out there is a little problem with filtering when you've integrated the Silverlight help into the Visual Studio help collection. If you set any filters for local help in Visual Studio, the Silverlight documentation is...

Heads up on a possible version number misunderstanding that has been mentioned a few times already during the early days of the Silverlight 2 release.
General instructions: Don't panic!
Specifically: If you install the Silverlight Tools , which...

As you may have heard , Silverlight 2 is now live and ready for prime time. Check out the Get Started page over at Silverlight.net to download the SDK.
The Get Started page provides links to all the tools you'll need to start developing in Silverlight...

As Silverlight RC0 and release come out, you will likely run into some breaking changes in your Beta 2 or older applications. The MSDN docs and SDK that is about to release has a breaking changes doc that lists most of these changes; however, due to these...

Silverlight is a web technology, right? So is it reasonable to assume that all of you have access to the web when you are developing your Silverlight applications?
One question we’re trying to answer here at Microsoft is whether anyone will even notice...

You can get the RC0 offline docs here . Using this file you don't have to deal with the delay of online browsing and when you do a search, you are only searching in Silverlight content.
One tip: If you are running Vista you might run into an issue...